No day without numbers in (social) media, in everyday life. And they not only want to inform us, they also want to orient us in one direction or the other.
And every day are among them deliberately or unintentionally false or misleading numbers.
Therefore, statistics must arm themselves against incorrect use of data and repeatedly teach the correct handling of statistical data.
There have long been numerous works on this subject. Here is another quite basic presentation by the Dutch journalist Sanne Blauw.
She picks out five statistical sins.
The fact that such presentations often use numbers themselves, which would also have to be viewed critically, does not diminish the value of her warnings.
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